InPocket – Money Manager wins Rep. Garret Graves’s 2021 Congressional App Challenge in Louisiana’s Sixth District

When asked what inspired the creation of InPocket – Money Manager, the student said, “Many reasons inspired me to create InPocket. One was that not everyone has a debit/credit card that can automatically log where you spent money. InPocket was designed specifically for people who want to keep up with their cash payments. When I was younger, my mom would try to monitor my cash, by writing down logs of how we spent it. Obviously, it wasn’t kept up long term and partially due to how lazy and repetitive it was to type out all the metadata every day. Luckily with InPocket, it takes a few clicks, and a few keystrokes and data are stored long-term. As the world turns to a more digital society, more people will turn to spreadsheets for entering data than by hand. With InPocket, you enter the data, the application turns it into tabular data, that the user can easily view and will not be lost as easily compared to a physical, hand-written log. I also believe that keeping up with your finances is a crucial skill in life, as it can motivate people to save and use their money wisely. So, in conclusion, many reasons encouraged me to develop InPocket but, the main reason was designed for users to easily manage their cash balance and get some insights into their spendings.”